• 4 PREFACE
• 20 Helmut Draxler THE DEATH DRIVE AS AN EMBLEM OF MODERNITY
• 32 “ALL POLITICAL STRUGGLE MUST RELY UPON THE WORK ON THE SELF” / A Conversation between Cynthia Fleury and Isabelle Graw
• 42 Daniel Birnbaum OLIMPIA: DEATH AND THE MACHINE
• 52 Arielle Friend PUSHY CAT: THE DEATH DRIVE AT PLAY IN THE WORKS OF UNICA ZÜRN
• 62 Nils Fock “THE FAILURE THAT SUCCEEDS” / On the Meaning of Death in Georges Bataille’s Theory of Art
• 76 Francesca Raimondi COUNTER-SUBLIMATION / On Jelena Jureša’s “Aphasia” (with Audre Lorde and María Lugones)
• 90 Peter Rehberg BEYOND THE DEATH DRIVE: MADONNA

Bildstrecke

• 101 ONCE MEEK, AND IN A PERILOUS PATH / By Rodrigo Ramírez Rodríguez

Liebe Arbeit Kino

• 108 HIER GIBT ES NICHTS ZU SEHEN / Matthias Dell über „In Liebe, Eure Hilde“ von Andreas Dresen und „­Riefenstahl“ von Andres Veiel

KLANG KÖRPER

• 113 EMINEM’S TRUTH / Tamara Levitz on “The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce)” by Eminem

Reviews

• ESCAPES OF A PETITE NIGHTMARER / Hans‐Christian Dany on Kai Althoff at nervi delle volpi, Genoa
• 124 NATURES MORTES / Benjamin D. Piekut on Raven Chacon at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
• 129 SURREALPOLITIK / Léa Kuhn über „Surrealismus + Antifaschismus“ im Kunstbau der Städtischen Galerie im Lenbachhaus, München
• 134 STAGING A RAID / Daniel Culpan on Glenn Ligon at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
• 139 STILL – POSING / Elena Meilicke über Rineke Dijkstra in der Berlinischen Galerie
• 144 DROWNING IN ONE’S OWN BELLY BUTTON / Miriam Stoney on “Ins Dunkle schwimmen: Abysses of the Creative Imperative” at the University Gallery of the Angewandte in Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna
• 149 ANRUFUNG IN ABWESENHEIT / Anna Sinofzik über Adrian Piper im Portikus, Frankfurt/M.
• 155 TREMORS / Fionn Meade on Steve McQueen at Dia Chelsea, New York, and Dia Beacon, Beacon

Nachrufe

• 160 WALTER DAHN (1954–2024)
  
• 165 PIPPA GARNER (1942–2024)
  
• 169 GARY INDIANA (1950–2024)
  

Edition

• Vera Palme
• Christina Quarles
• Heimo Zobernig